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POGKET.

No. 467,818. Patented JaJn. 26, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH LOGAN AND CHARLES R. LEIVIS, OF JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, SAID LOGAN ASSIGNOR TO SAID LEIVIS.

POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,818, dated January 26, 1892.

Application filed June 20, 1891 Serial No. 396,903- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HUGH LOGAN and CHARLES R. LEWIS, citizens of the United States, residing at Jefferson City, in the county of Cole, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in wearing-apparel, and more particularly to pockets and the means of attaching them to the garment; and it has for its object, primarily, to so attach the pocket to the garment as to make it acceptable to the trade and also strengthen the garment and render the pocket less liable to tear away from its fastenings.

Heretofore the usual manner on low-priced garments and overalls has been to put on an outside patch-pocket 011 the hip, which is unsightly and therefore objectionable. In better classes of trousers it has been the custom to affix a curtain to cover the inside of the hip-pocket and make the garment thereby acceptable to the eye and therefore salable. This curtain adds materially to the cost of the garmentsay about seven or eight cents to each pocket. In the present invention the curtain is dispensed with, a pocket of neat finish being provided, without the need of a curtain to cover the work at the top of the pocket. V e secure the goods of which the pocket is formed at a place above the mouth of the pocket either under the waistband of the garment or by any continuation of the goods used in making the pocket or other goods attached thereto that may be secured at a point above the mouth of the pocket. This provides a neat and not unsightly-appearing garment and lessens the cost of the garment materially.

,Other objects and advantages of the invention willhereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form apart of this specification, and in which- Figure l is an inside view of a portion of a pair of pants with a pocket attached thereto in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a section on the line z of Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in both views where they occur.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a portion of a garment, which may be overalls or pants of any desired style, our invention pertaining simply to the pocket and manner of attaching the same to the garment.

B is the opening in the cloth of the pants into the pocket.

The pocket maybe made of any suitable material, and it has its outer upper edge secured to the material of the garment along thelower side of the pocket-opening B by a row of stitching a, as shown in Fi 2. The inner portion of the pocket O has its upper edge extended above the pocket-opening B and preferably extended, so as to be embraced by the waistband D, and held in place by the row of stitching b, which secures the waistband to the material of the garment, as seen in Fig. 2. The continuation of the inner portion of the pocket above the pocket-opening need not necessarily be an integral part of the pocket. It may be a separate piece secured to the inner portion of the pocket. The result is the same.

E is a piece of material, preferably the same as that of the garment, secured between the extension of the pocket and the material of the garment above the pocket-opening, its lower edge being extended sufficiently to cover the outer face of the inner portion of the pocket at the pocket-opening, as seen in Fig. 2. It is secured in place by the stitching c and cl or O and F, as seen in both views. It will thus be seen that we not only obtain a neat and salable garment, but one in which the pocket is strongly attached and not liable to give way at its attach in cut. The pocket is formed by doubling the material upon itself, doing away with the seam at the bottom, the seams being at the sides.

I the garment and the inner part of the pocket What we claim as new is- I and secured at a line above the pocket-opening and to the inner wall of'the pocket below said opening, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

HUGH LOGAN. CHARLES R. LEWIS.

5 5 A garment having a pocket-opening and a pocket, consisting of two plies extended below the pocket-opening, with one end secured at the opening and the other end secured within the waistband and at the upper edge of the pocket-opening, and having a reinforce-piece arranged between the body of Witnesses:

DAVID C. MGGLUNG, JOHN G. LEWIS. 

